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LearningLabs

Bringing challenging DNA science topics into the classroom

Heidelberg, 29 September - 1 October 2008 - photos

Carin Cruijsen and Marc van Mil (CRG, The Netherlands) introducing their tumour talk activity.

Preparing the tumour talk activity PCR reactions.

EMBL PhD student Agnieska Zdanowicz, supervising participants to run the Nature's Dice activity.

Relating genotype and phenotype: filling in the virtual family pedigree (Nature's Dice activity) with the results obtained by each group.

EMBL PhD student Stella Lamprinaki, assisting participants to perform pGLO Bacterial Transformation (Bio-Rad)

The transformed bacterial colonies obtained glowing fluorescent green under UV light.

Margarida Oliveira (ITQB, Portugal) giving a seminar on GM technology, strategies, applications and risks.

A group of participants, led by EMBL PhD student Archana Bairavasundaram Prusty, playing a cards game on GMOs (DEMOCs)

Anastasios Koutsos instructing his Virtual Microarray game

Anastasios Koutsos instructing his Virtual Microarray game

Celia van Gelder and Roobie Joosten (NBIC) instructing the Bionformatics@school activity